Comments by "David Cooks" (@davidcooks2379) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1. The only circumstances when private companies are better than public is where there is competition involved that forces to innovate and provide consumer-friendly good and services. The competition allows consumers to vote with their feet. If competition is absent, limited or obstructed, the benefits diminish accordingly
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  2. Phil, never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake
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  3. A colleague joked that operation moonshot will mean people will need to go to the Moon to get a shot at testing
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  4. As Sir Humphrey would say: stupid decision, but frightfully well carried out
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  5. Vote of no confidence, either by the parliament, or by the party
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  6. They lost mostly to Reform, which will not happen in the next GE. But I was glad to see that a lot of LibDems switched to Labour
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  7. Phil, have you ever done a video on how Brexit and the absence of FoM is going to affect social care industry?
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  8. It's good that they can't lower standards, it will make it easier to rejoin the Customs Union
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  9. I'm for an independent London. We don't want to pay for English indulgence any more
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  10. No we don't give up. This parliament is Tory. We need to make it Tory-free or at least Tory-light.
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  11. The problem is... Ours is even worse. And we were always the ones benefitting from trade between Europe and the rest of the world, because we were the banking intermediary of choice
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  12. No, you are mixing up. He met with a former KGB officer without witnesses AND made his son a Lord
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  13. Wow, I've never seen this statistics. So Labour party is almost entirely dependent on Trade Unions for funding. This is really strange. The second largest party in parliament is not supported by companies and wealthy individuals. Even Lib Dems have more support from these sources
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  14. The 3rd solution is UK rejoining the EU or the CU/SM or just aligning with them to the extent that no checks are needed
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  15. They are, but since they are not actually a dictatorship, we can change them next year
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  16. Write it on the side of a red bus - this seems to be the most trustworthy source of information these days
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  17. Phil, you have a very high profile, you are one of the most popular Labour media performers. I think it would be really worth ford you to go to the conference, not as a delegate, but as a representative of Labour media. To report us the mood at the conference. And to raise your profile even higher. Maybe people in the party will take your ideas about information policy more seriously
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  18. I wish SAGE was as public as this. And I wish this independent science group was in operation earlier. I wish opposition parties formed am alternative policy group based on the independent advice and developed an independent decentralised tracing app and tracing army from volunteers this effectively forming an alternative government for the 53% of the population who didn't vote for the hard right parties. I need a gold fish now.
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  19. Off to buy some garlic...
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  20. Also to other people in the country who didn't know if they were crazy for thinking this bill is wrong, i.e. validating their views
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  21. The only guy in the whole Conservative party you would think actually deserves it and would actually be good at it, and he decides not to stand
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  22. Labour needs media on their side. Since the existing media won't ever be, they need to create their own media. Until they do it, there is no point in anything they do
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  23. He wants to be great. So far he hasn't done anything to qualify for "great"
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  24. It's not his country though, he is Indian, with Indian interests and American property
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  25. Steve Dorrans not only want but achieve it too. For some reason sheep really liked to follow wolves. They sound so reassuring
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  26. He disappeared from the Conservatives national campaign after appearing to suggest he was smarter that the people who died in the Grenfell tower tragedy.
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  27. Remember the 70s, when UK was the sick man of Europe with no growth, non-stop strikes, labour, goods and energy shortages? Just before we joined the EEC. Well now we are back there
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  28. Frankly, I'm glad that it's that bad. This means there is a chance people will be really sick of Tories by the next GE.
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  29. Thatcher dismantled manufacturing, but have service economy in return. Conservative donors made money on manufacturing dismantling. But the new conservative donors need to make money somewhere, so Johnson is now dismantling banking services to benefit his conservative donors. Unfortunately there will be not much left after that, so I guess they will need to build something first before dismantling it. Or maybe they will let Labour in for 2-3 rounds to build something?
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  30. If this won't kill the Tories, what will?
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  31. And should not get a right to vote
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  32. Phil, could you cover the cancellation of Economic Crime Bill?
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  33.  glareola  you don't speak for the majority, only for impressionable minority
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  34. Aso even by Eton's standards he was a lazy bastard
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  35. They are not qualified, but they have been elected by the Brexiteer mob...
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  36. At least for a nation that hardly produces anything, except for raw unprocessed inedible seafood
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  37. Actually, I expected this to happen. Tories inherently love cheap foreign labour, but their voters don't, so they needed to show them what horror would ensue if cheap labour was no longer there. I'm just surprised they gave up so quickly. I thought they would give up in November, just in time for Xmas
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  38. This guy cannot capitulate. Someone will need to "capitulate" him
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  39. What matters is: will Keir Starmer be able to defeat them?
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  40. Yes, no freedom of movement for the French, we want Hong Kongers now
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  41. Yes, people are dumb for blindly following a narcissist and psychopath Johnson. They should be shamed of themselves
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  42. Narcissistic and anti-social disorder (psychopathy) spectrum
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  43. This is a great opportunity for our nation to fight obesity, overeating and waste crisis
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  44. So Tories literally take the expression "don't let a good crisis go to waste". They make money for their friends for it and institute a huge power grab
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  45. Let's give all frontline NHS and care workers a war-time supplement. And an automatic settled status for the foreign ones
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  46. Where are anti-trans demands? "Regan’s demands were laughably undemanding. In her letter to Yousaf she called for ‘competence in government’ prioritising ‘the rights of women and children’ and placing independence ‘front and centre’ of the Scottish government’s agenda."
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  47. London should separate from the UK and join the EU immediately, until it's too late
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  48. Maybe he will bring more damage to Sunak and the Tories by staying
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  49. He is Irish
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  50. Phil, where are the charts you are talking about? Taxation vs productivity
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